fandomhigh | Ethics, Friday, September 4, 2020

"Hello, everyone," Anakin said, sweeping into the room. "It's gratifying to see so many familiar faces in class today because it lets me know that you are not afraid of asking tough questions of yourselves and your fellow students." He leaned against the desk at the front of the class. "For those of you who don't know me, I'm Anakin Skywalker, the Dean of Students and your ethics teacher for this semester. Traditionally this is the week for introductions, but it's Friday and you're already probably very tired of this."

He smiled. "Too bad. We're going to break into groups of three ~~based on how you sign in~~ and play a game. You must come up with two things the three of have in common--the stranger the better. Perhaps you're all from the same dimension, or have all been bitten by a gremlin, or your names all have the same number of vowels, or you've all eaten the Monday breakfast that Wayne makes. Then you get to tell the group what your two things are, and we'll decide which is the oddest."

He smiled again. "And since this is an ethics class, you must choose whether you are telling us things you actually have in common or just two things you made up and agreed to."

As students who had taken the course before knew already, everything was a series of interlocking tests in Anakin's class.

"You may begin."

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Arabella could be non-human, but that was a secret. Hey, there was something she and Julius had in common...not that either of them knew that.

"I'm not from this version of Earth, either," Arabella said. "Mine has magic. But I'm not from the future."

"Also magic!" Julius said, excitedly. "Err. Where I'm from, I mean."

Unless Arabella could see magic, in which case, between the seal that engulfed him like a nasty curse and then his own intrinsic nature, he was definitely Full Of Magic.

"Magic also for me," Freya added, with a note of excitement that this seemed to be coming together, a grin and flicker of her tail. "So there's those things: not from this version of Earth," or even Earth at all for her, but it still certianly worked, "and magic. I know that Julian and I have also been trained to fight, if I'm remembering properly." She nodded to Arabella. "Have you had training like that?"

"Yeah, my parents definitely taught me to take care of myself," Arabella said. "You never know what creeps are out there. Hey, can you guys use magic or are you just from somewhere that has magic? Because I can use it, but, uh, I can't really say anything about it beyond that for family privacy reasons."

Those reasons being 'we don't want the government to stick Arabella in a lab,' mostly.

"Errr." Oh look. Julius's expression was very awkward right now. "I...can? I'm just not. Very good," he mumbled.

Thank goodness he wasn't over there with the other teams that had gone with lying. He was terrible at it.

"My siblings are better. But, umm. Same. Can't really talk about it."

Freya's head tilted a little, finding the secrecy aspect of all of this a little fascinating...and confusing.

"I'm still learning some of my magic," she admitted, "but I can use some. It's a well-known aspect of being a dragon knight, though, there's no stigma about my discussing it."

Arabella wilted a little. "Darn it. 'We all have magic...but we can't talk about it' would have been really good."

"There're no secret spells or rituals or anything that you can't talk about?" Julius asked, a little hopefully.

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Freya felt so bad for throwing off a potentially good commin ground that she almost thought about lying and saying there were, but she just couldn't bring herself to do it.

"There are certain rituals and spells that are known only to Burmecians," she ventured with her own tone of hope now, "that we don't share with others. Not secret, but exclusive, at least. Would that count?"

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